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I got home around 9:30 this morning, a mere (!) 22 hours after our first plane left Eilat. Oof. Good trip and I'll write some wrap-up stuff later (and about our last day), but in the meantime, some requests:
1. Please tell me about things you think I should know from the last two weeks.
2. What's your favorite photo-hosting site? I want to post some pictures to my LJ but point to bigger buckets of them (for those who care). I care about individual-photo URLs (for said posts), being able to add captions, and retaining ownership; if people can leave comments (per photo or per gallery) that's cool, but not essential.
1. Please tell me about things you think I should know from the last two weeks.
2. What's your favorite photo-hosting site? I want to post some pictures to my LJ but point to bigger buckets of them (for those who care). I care about individual-photo URLs (for said posts), being able to add captions, and retaining ownership; if people can leave comments (per photo or per gallery) that's cool, but not essential.
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Yahoo Photos has some nice integration with Tivo and Target. It might be a nice way to go if you think that people will want to make nice hardcopies of the pictures.
http://photobucket.com/ offers hosting and is widely used, but there are bandwidth limits and the site makes me nervous -- I don't see how they make money, and they ask for too much personal info. Sounds like a good way to get onto spam lists (or worse).
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I didn't find the upload limit a problem (partly because I don't upload full-quality images: it's a control-freak thing), but was lured into a paid account before my first year was out.
This is my account (http://www.flickr.com/photos/she_who_must/), if you want to see what it does...
It is part of the Yahoo empire: I don't know if that's a disincentive for you.
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I personally love the Scrapbook that livejournal gives you. As a permanent user (I am one too), you get 10G of storage space. There's also a way to upload pictures pretty easily using Windox XP Publishing Wizard (http://pics.livejournal.com/site/tech/xpclient/instructions) (Tho, I am not sure if you use Windows...)
I find it very easy to use, especially with livejournal.
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Flickr, Flickr, Flickr, Flickr, Flickr.
Easy to use. Great hosting. Lets you adjust the ownership of each photo - everything from "all rights reserved" (the default) to non-commercial open use with attribution to Creative Commons and everything in between.
Flickr also offers sets (for grouping), Tags (for tracking things across time), and some very interesting and creative public groups (so you could post photos of, say, your trip to Israel to a public group that is specifically for photos from Israel, and then view photos that other people have posted to the same group.
You can also order prints of your photos, and have them mailed to your home or pick them up at a local Target store. They also do calendars and things.
In addition, they have a "blog this" function that lets you post a photo to your LJ in a thumbnail format and write about it, without having to flip back and forth between multiple services.
And its a great interface. Should I go on? :-)
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Flickr Uploadr (http://flickr.com/tools/) lets you upload large batches of photos, tag them, then assign them to sets.
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The Wizard is great but like all good freeware, sometimes not perfect. I've learned to set it to upload the pictures and then walk away from the computer until it's done, else it borks up a bit. However, my laptop's about 3 years old at this point and could have used more RAM when I bought it. :)
Honestly, I'd give it a try before trying Flickr. But then, I'm biased and I love Scrapbook. :)
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About your photo hosting question: I see a chorus of shouts for Flickr here and want to offer an alternative in Google's Picasaweb. Flickr is good -- especially if you want to participate in a large community of photographers -- but Picasa has some advantages that might make it more suited to sharing with smaller groups. Here's a pro/con roundup of the two services:
- I've found Flickr to be quite slow in loading accounts with lots of photos and poking around on my friends' pages. Picasaweb loads much faster.
- Flickr's free account lets you organize your photos into a maximum of three separate "sets" that roughly correspond to albums, and it limits the number of photos you can put into each set. If you want more control over sets, you have to upgrade to a paid account. Picasaweb's free account has no such restrictions -- you can group your photos into as many albums as you want, with as many photos per album as you want.
- Flickr's interface is busy, and has gotten busier since Yahoo bought the service; Picasaweb's interface is very sleek.
- Both have good (and very similar) standalone uploading tools that let you choose, add, and manage multiple files at once. Regardless of which service you pick, you'll want to download the standalone tools. (I think Picasaweb uploads faster, but I've no metrics to prove this).
- Picasaweb's tools for organizing and managing files, deleting them, switching them among albums, etc., are a little more intuitive and powerful than Flickr's. Flickr's captioning mechanism is better, but the captions themselves are smaller and a little more crowded on the page. Picasaweb makes much better use of white-space around the photos.
- Flickr's greatest advantage is its huge photo-sharing community. Both sites let users with accounts make comments on your individual photos, but your friends are more likely to already have Flickr accounts.
I have accounts on both services -- feel free to check them out and compare for yourself:
Picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/suzannek
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzannek/
Cheers!
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In addition, though I haven't used picasaweb, I've poked around there and I like what I see. So I'd also recommend them.
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Shawna Kiane
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Nothing really happened with us over the last 2 weeks, other than break being too short. :-)